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...sizes suited for household use been extensively made or sold. The "ice interests," if such there be, have not yet expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But the National Electric Light Association estimated that (ice costing 60c. per 100 Ib. and electricity 5.3c. per kilowatt hour) in a temperature of 70° the electric refrigerator would consume 2.62 kilowatt hours per day and the icebox would consume 40 Ibs. of ice. Thus, for such a day, the cost of the electric refrigerator would be 13.89c., against 24c. for the icebox; on an annual basis...
...come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders who prate about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first course in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and others "engineering", they are all parts of some field of science...
...single-phase alternating current; the single reduction-gear streetcar motor, which, although designed in 1890, is the type still used. His conception of the single-phase alternating-current railway system, now in universal use, is declared to have revolutionized the industry. The 62,500-kilowatt generator which he recently designed was larger than Steinmetz had conceded to be possible...
...inventor of a method of controlling motorboats at sea by wireless, for which the British Government awarded him $125,000, has perfected a principle by which airplane or other engines can be stopped in full operation through an invisible ray. He has demonstrated its efficacy with but a quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected...
Power will be furnished to drive the wheels over the road from Mr. Ford's Rouge powerhouse, whose capacity will be doubled by substituting eight turbine generators, each rated at 30,000 kilovolt amperes, for the original equipment of two 12,500 kilowatt turbine generators. The new turbine generators, one of which is nearly completed, will be among the largest in the world...